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Thunderball · draw

Saturday, 10 December 2016

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 11
  2. 18
  3. 20
  4. 26
  5. 28
  6. 12

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 27% more than an average linefrom the prize table, not from a model of how people pick

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/39 + 1/14 · since Jan 2010draw 1,069 of 3,062 under them

← 2016-12-09All recent draws2016-12-14 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:38 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed11 18 20 26 28 + 1229 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 10 December 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

45oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 45 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 32% of every possible ticket.

  • sum55th
  • odd9th
  • low64th
  • widest gap8th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread9th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 137 of each

11122times
18142times
20148times
26143times
28

Prize breakdown · 2016-12-10

  • Lines in play≈ 2.4Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£1.2Mto 204k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 12lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.30

Where the money went

  • Match 323%£274.5K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball30%£359.6K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball20%£248.2K
  • 5 other tiers28%£336.4K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.30 by chance

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137times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 76 of each

1280times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,068 draws, and they scatter around it. Warm means more than expected, cool means fewer — and a cold number arriving is exactly what cold numbers do.

Frequency Explorer →

Its nearest twin

Shares 3 of 5 numbers (11, 26, 28) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 10 June 2016 — its closest relative in 1,068 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (9 December 2016): nothing carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: 12 repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

103

The numbers add up to 103 — the 54th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. No two numbers side by side. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

26 had not appeared for 9 draws. A number waits about 8 on average, and a wait this long was not a signal — the machine has no memory of it.

Gap & “Overdue” Tracker →

How many people held it

A line like this is played about 1.8× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 1% of the jackpot.

Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£500,000
  • Match 52≈ 3.9 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball55≈ 51 by chance£250
  • Match 4798≈ 657 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,870≈ 1.7k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball19,541≈ 18k by chance£10.00
  • Match 327,447≈ 22k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball71,927≈ 69k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball82,725≈ 83k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈2.4M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 27,447 winners, 27% more than the 22k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably more popular than average — a draw full of birthdays makes more small winners, a draw of high numbers fewer. That is the crowd, not the machine.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 0 plus Bonus Ball82,725£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball71,927£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball19,541£10.00
    Match 327,447£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,870£20.00
    Match 4798£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball55£250
    Match 52£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000